ColinCochrane

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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
Thor's Hammer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mj%C3%B6lnir
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Monday morning mistake: sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /(serverfault.com)
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
You can't get into fights at Disneyland either. The best bet is to not assault people.
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
There is no chance for fair debate if you avoid it because you assume there won't be a fair debate.
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
From The Night Watch: Similar to the Necronomicon, a C++ source code file is a wicked, obscure document that’s filled with cryptic incantations and forbidden knowledge. When it’s 3 A.M., and you’ve been debugging for 12 hours and you encou
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
Another good one, titled "Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest of Deception and Chicanery" is at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofhor... .
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
Thanks for the link. That was a great read.
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
> “You can look at it as a percentage of our total activity that occurs each day,” he said. “You look at a number in absolute terms that looks big, and when you look at it in relative terms, it looks a little different.” I wonder if he
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
This is a great quote: The idea of the Fourth Amendment is not to get in the way of law enforcement and intelligence, but rather to see that they do a good job by having to prove at each step of the way that they know what they’re doing, t
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The Most Efficient Office in the World (and it's run by the US government)(slate.com)
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A Sewage Blunder Earns Engineer a Criminal Record (2011)(online.wsj.com)
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
> Political figures are commonly the second largest requester for domestic intel, only second to the secret police. I would certainly be interested in seeing the evidence to back up this claim.
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
Wow. I wonder what the use-case for that is?
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by ColinCochrane 13y ago
I wouldn't say you are being overly defensive. The post made the author come off as extremely arrogant.